“Well, the 2013 version of the Edmonton Folk Music Festival has come and gone, and young Cayley Thomas from last week’s jam acquitted herself with flying colours both in workshop and on main stage. Unfortunately, this year the weather gods didn't allow the traditional singing of Ian Tyson’s Four Strong Winds to wrap up the prairie festival. A rollicking thunderstorm sent everyone packing, the rain so heavy it turned the roads around the site into instant rivers. So here’s an inspired amateur video to capture the fest’s closing song from 2009. Can’t watch this without getting all choked up …”

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